Following this Monday's WWDC revelation of iOS 5 and iCloud, it turned out that the iCloud name, which Apple purchased from Xcerion (who renamed their product to CloudMe) towards the end of April, was intended...

Rock group "No Doubt" have filed a law-suit over the band's appearance in Band Hero, Activision's latest spin-off of the Guitar Hero video game franchise. The group contend that the game has transformed them into...

Another day, another lawsuit. Under fire this time is the glorious search giant Google, being sued by one Erich Specht, for use of the name 'Android'... which he legally owns. Yep, it turns out that...

When Windows Vista was released to market on January 30th, 2007, Microsoft gave consumers the option to downgrade to Windows XP if they were not satisfied with the new operating system. However charging consumers $59.25...

A Texas resident has filed a federal lawsuit against Blockbuster for participating in Facebook's Beacon program, which tells members about their friends' e-commerce activity. In the lawsuit, quietly filed last week, Dallas County resident...

Although Intel's mighty proud of the Core 2 Duo, it looks like the chip wasn't all home-grown - a lawsuit filed today by the University of Wisconsin claims that the processor infringes on patented technology...

Microsoft now faces a lawsuit over recent problems with its Xbox Live online gaming service. Three Texas residents filed a lawsuit Friday on behalf of themselves and others who have had trouble connecting to Xbox...

A California man filed suit in state court Tuesday against internet service provider Comcast, arguing that the company's secret use of technology to limit peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent violates federal computer fraud laws, their...

The Center for Environmental Health on Monday said that it is suing Apple based on the report by environmental group Greenpeace. The report, released earlier Monday, found hazardous materials Apple's iPhone. The Greenpeace tests revealed...

An owner of Apple's iPhone filed a federal lawsuit against the digital media giant, claiming that the price reduction injured early adopters, like herself, because they cannot resell the product for the same profit as...

Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage woes aren't likely to end any time soon. Soon after a global WGA failure caused by human error comes word that a privacy suit has been brought against the company in...

JuxtaComm alleges that its data integration patents are being infringed by companies that include Microsoft and IBM. Data integration software vendor JuxtaComm Technologies has filed suit in a Texas court alleging patent...

Attorneys representing Polaris IP filed a claim of patent infringement in U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas against AOL, Amazon, Borders, Google, IAC, and Yahoo with regards to Texas-based Polaris IP and...

Apple and Sony are being sued by a Japanese couple for shipping defective batteries. Sony says this is the first lawsuit regarding its defective batteries. Many vendors were affected by this matter when ten million...

Apple may be in trouble with its Apple TV set top player and the iTunes store in regards to two separate lawsuits filed this week. The first claims that Apple knowingly infringed on copyrights belonging...

Apple Incorporated is facing a class action lawsuit alleging the company advertised the LCD screens on its MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops as being superior, but knowingly shipped screens that did not meet its original...

Be careful how you portray yourself on the Internet. One day you may regret it or, alternatively, possibly make some money with a nice lawsuit. Stacy Snyder posted a photo entitled "Drunken Pirate" on...

James Taylor, a Texas inventor, has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas against Microsoft, claiming that the software giant's Windows operating systems, Office applications, and SQL database technology violate his...

Over the weekend it became known that Texas MP3 Technologies plans to take on Apple, Samsung Electronics, and Sandisk with a patent-infringement lawsuit filed on February 16 in Marshall, Texas. In the complaint, Texas MP3...

As the latest lawsuit to be leveled against video game hardware manufacturers, Richardson, Texas based Fenner Investments has filed suit against Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo for infringing on the company's patent number 6,297,751 for a...

Apple Computer faces a U.S. lawsuit, which follows charges in Europe, over tying its iTunes music store to the iPod digital music player. Apple revealed the suit, submitted in July to the U.S. District Court...

It seems that the stock scandal wasn't enough for Apple; the Associated Press is reporting that the company is facing several lawsuits. One of them, filed July 21, alleges that Apple is monopolizing the digital...

According to the BBC News French phone equipment firm Alcatel has sued Microsoft, accusing it of infringing seven of its patents. Alcatel has not revealed which Microsoft products it believes are in breach but says...

Universal Music Group sued MySpace.com on Friday, alleging that the social networking site that bills itself as a source of "user generated" content instead trades on "user stolen" songs and music videos. The lawsuit, filed...

An Activision shareholder has sued the video game maker over its stock option grant practices alleging improprieties in the company's issuance of stock options and targeting both former and current executives in the latest backdating...

A journalist and well-known helicopter pilot in Los Angeles has filed suit against video-sharing site YouTube, claiming that it encouraged users to violate copyright law. Robert Tur says video he shot of the beating of...

The technology used by Vonage Holdings to deliver voicemail service to its 1.6 million VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) telephony customers infringes another company's patent, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. Klausner Technologies has...

The recent rejection of a dedicated .xxx domain for porn sites has prompted the company behind the plan, ICM Registry, to launch a legal attack against the US Department of Commerce. ICM claims that the...

Not for lead plaintiff Joseph Kinney and the other Internet advertisers who this week had their lawyers sue to block the $90 million settlement Google reached in a click fraud case in March. The suit...

Microsoft is facing a new lawsuit today fromtelecommunications provider Visto claiming that the software giant"...infringed upon multiple patents Visto holds regarding proprietarytechnology that provides enterprises and consumers with mobile access to theire-mail and other data."...

A video game developer has sued Electronic Arts Inc.,charging that the world's biggest video game publisher stole an ideafor a game feature he had and incorporated it in the popular footballtitle "Madden NFL 06." "We...

Glud & Marstrand (G&M) recently filed for legal action against Microsoft. The Danish company alleges that Microsoft violated a nondisclosure agreement by revealing their metal game case technology to a rival firm. The Halo 2...

Google Inc. is being sued over accusations that it overcharged advertisers who use the Web search giant's paid search advertising program, which accounts for the vast majority of Google's revenue. The proposed class-action suit, filed...

A seller of online marketing tools said on Wednesday it sued Google Inc., charging that the Web search giant has failed to protect users of its advertising program from "click fraud," costing them at least...

Apple Computer, Inc. has been slapped with a lawsuit over iTunes, AppleInsider has learned. Contois Music Technology last week asked a Federal Court to stop the iPod maker from distributing its iTunes...

Microsoft Corp. illegally took technology used to link spreadsheet data between two of its programs from a Guatemalan inventor, lawyers said during opening statements at a jury trial that started on Tuesday. Carlos Armando Amado...